%0 Journal Article
%T Algunas consideraciones sobre la hepatitis G
%A Vladimir Ru¨ªz ¨¢lvarez
%A Nora Clara Ben¨ªtez P¨¦rez
%J Revista Cubana de Medicina General Integral
%D 1999
%I ECIMED
%X La b¨²squeda de nuevos agentes capaces de producir inflamaci¨®n hep¨¢tica ha avanzado notablemente en los ¨²ltimos a os. Recientenmente se report¨® el aislamiento de dos nuevos virus mediante las t¨¦cnicas de Biolog¨ªa Molecular, los cuales han resultado ser aislados id¨¦nticos de un mismo virus, cuyas caracter¨ªsticas estructurales permiten incluirlo dentro de la familia Flavivirus. Existe discrepancia en los criterios sobre si este agente es capaz o no de causar hepatitis. Se plantea como principal v¨ªa de transmisi¨®n la parenteral, aunque no se descarta la propagaci¨®n sexual o tal vez de paciente a paciente. Dada la poca capacidad del virus para inducir una respuesta inmune no ha sido posible hasta ahora obtener un ensayo serol¨®gico suficientemente seguro, y hasta tanto eso no ocurra ser¨¢n dif¨ªciles los estudios epidemiol¨®gicos a gran escala The search of new agents capable of producing hepatic inflammation has advanced significantly during the last years. The isolation of 2 new viruses by molecular biology techniques has been reported recently. These viruses have proved to be identical isolates of the same virus, whose structural characteristics allow us to include it in the family Flavivirus. Whether this agent may cause hepatitis or not is under discussion. The parenteral route of transmission is considered as the main one, but sexual or even patient to patient spreading are not discarded. Due to the low capacity of the virus to induce an inmune responce, it has not been possible up to now to obtain a sufficiently safe serological assay, which makes difficult to conduct epidemiological studies at a large scale.
%K AGENTES DE LA HEPATITIS GB
%K HEPATITIS VIRAL HUMANA
%K HEPATITIS AGENTS GB
%K HEPATITIS
%K VIRAL
%K HUMAN
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